مطابق کلام خداوند که توسط انبیا گفته شده بود، خداوند سپاهیان کلدانی، سوری، موآبی و عمونی را فرستاد تا یهودا را نابود کنند.
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.